Systemen med rätt inställning - En studie om whistleblowingsystem i Sverige

Sammanfattning: In order to counteract and to discover unethical actions within an organisation, a growing number of Swedish companies implement a so-called whistleblowing system. The purpose of our essay is to study the mindset of companies and further analyse how this mindset affects the design and quality of companies' whistleblowing systems. To do this, we have used a qualitative approach by interviewing different Swedish companies about their mindsets and systems. The study determines that there seemingly are three different categories of systems of varying quality. In this study we have chosen to call them "internal system", "external system" and "combined system". Furthermore the study shows that there is a connection between what kind of system the company has and how well developed the company is within ethics and code of conducts. Our research also found that there seems to be a connection between the companies' mindset, and their system functionality. These cultural aspects do indeed seem to affect both the quality of the whistleblowingsystem and its design.